Category: Education

The National Executive Council of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities will meet on Sunday, August 28, 2022 to take a decision on whether to suspend or continue with the industrial action, it has been learnt. Sources among the union’s NEC members told our correspondent on Monday that the meeting will hold at the […]

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration’s transformational policies in the education sector have been attributed to the recent ranking of Enugu State as first among public secondary schools that presented candidates for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) examination in Nigeria, in 2021. According to recent data released by WAEC and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) […]

The Federal Government on Saturday called on the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the plights of Nigerian students who have stayed at home for six months and call off the strike. Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, made the call in Owerri while fielding questions from Journalists. He said […]

The National Association of Nigerian Students on Thursday said it would commence consultations to sue the Federal Government and the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The association made this known in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja. The minister had during […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) on Thursday explained why a meeting with the Prof. Nimi Briggs-led committee renegotiating the 2009 agreements with university unions ended without any agreement reached. The lecturers explained that the meeting ended in deadlock because the committee presented “award of a Recommended Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS),prepared by the […]

The insistence by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on being paid six months salaries of the strike period is stalling the negotiations between the Federal Government and the lecturers. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, stated this on Thursday while appearing on the weekly Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team, at the […]

Education minister Adamu Adamu has denied getting a directive from President Muhammadu Buhari to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in two weeks. Adamu told State House Correspondents on Thursday that Buhari instead told him to resolve the issues within the shortest possible time, contrary to what the Minister […]